NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday advised that the Supreme Court its telling of May 28 assigning powers to collectors of a number of districts to provide citizenship to members of this minority community in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh wasn’t about the Declaration (Amendment) Act and also such exercise was completed before also because 2006.
Owing to the allegation of the Indian Union of Muslim League, that registered an application contrary to the telling in a case pending in SC about the inherent validity of CAA, ” the authorities said its telling a part of an administrative decision to decentralise the decision procedure for accelerated disposal of citizenship programs and isn’t in any manner associated with CAA.
“It is submitted the telling attempts to only assign the ability of this central government to the regional government in particular circumstances.
The said notification doesn’t provide for any relaxations into the foreigners and applies only to foreigners who have entered the country lawfully.
The central authorities used its jurisdiction under Section 16 of the Citizenship Act and assigned its powers to give citizenship by registration or naturalisation to district collectors.
It’s submitted it is simply an administrative delegation of electricity with no particular classification or comfort,” said the Centre’s affidavit.
From the telling, the Centre has assigned power to provide citizenship in these instances to the natives of 13 more districts — Morbi, Rajkot, Patan and Vadodara in Gujarat; Jalore, Udaipur, Pali, Barmer and Sirohi at Rajasthan; Durg and Balodabazar at Chhattisgarh; Faridabad in Haryana; and Jalandhar in Punjab and into the home secretaries of both Haryana and Punjab.
Today, district collectors of 29 districts and house secretaries of all 9 countries can perform such powers.
“It is submitted that the current law and process of obtaining citizenship of India is no way sought to be countered via the impugned telling,” the authorities said.